“The Culprits Will Pay Properly”: Former Official Fach Formalized for Trafficking in Ketamine Writes Letter From Jail

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On July 15, the Public Prosecutor's Office formalized the five former Air Force officials (FACH) who were arrested a week earlier when they tried to transfer ketamine on an institutional plane from Iquique to Santiago, who were held in pretrial detention.Eight days later, the precautionary measure was upheld by the Iquique Court of Appeals, after the defenses of Rodrigo Ignacio Silva Fuentes and María Fernanda Rebolledo Díaz appealed the court's…

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What seemed like a routine operation within the Chilean Air Force (FACh) ended up uncovering a complex drug trafficking network operating from the heart of the institution in early July. A judicial investigation revealed that a group of former subcommissioned officers would have used official flights to transfer ketamine from Iquique to Santiago, circumventing controls and security protocols.The facts The discovery occurred early on July 3 at Lo…